STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER
NEW ZEALAND’S POSITION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, December 10. In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr J. H. Thomas made a statement regarding New Zealand and the Statute of Westminster.. This was in reply to a question asked by Viscount Brodale. New Zealand, said the Secretary for the Dominions, had joined with the other dominions in asking for the submission of the Statute of Westminster Bill to Parliament—-and there is no need for me to remind the House of the loyal support which the great constitutional principle underlying the second preamble in the Bill has always received in New Zealand. But, as the Prime Minister of the dominions stated in the debates in the New Zealand Parliament on the resolution asking for the submission of this Bill, New Zealand does not wish that her position should be affected as the result of the passing of the Bill unless and until the New Zealand Parliament decides to apply the provisions of the statute to that Dominion. Mr Forbes has made clear the paramount, desire of New Zealand to maintain unaltered the existing relation between the Dominion and the United Kingdom.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21549, 22 January 1932, Page 14
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